Icelandic Noir Programme

              Noir in the North

Conference Programme

@noirinthenorth

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Wednesday, November 16^th

9.30-10.00                   Registration

2^nd Floor, Hotel Saga

10.00-10.15                  Opening Remarks (Room: Katla II)   

Stacy Gillis & Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir             

10.15-11.30                  Keynote Address (Room: Katla II)

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, ‘Yin Yang’

            Chair: Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir

11.30-12.00                  Refreshments

12.00-13.30                 Panel One

1A) Noir & the Past (Room: Katla II)

Chair: Dagný Kristjánsdóttir

·           Melissa Jacques (University of British Columbia), ‘Mid-Century Modern and the Aesthetics of Fascism’

·           Christopher James (Bridgewater College), ‘Bleakness and Tenacity: Fin-de-siècle French Literature and Nordic Noir’

·           Daisy Neijmann (University of Iceland), ‘Fair Shores: Pastness and Authenticity in Arnaldur Indriðason and Ann Cleeves’

1B) Noir & National Identity (Room: Hekla I)

Chair: Giti Chandra

·           Kerstin Bergman (University of Lund), ‘From Solidarity to Neo-liberalism: The Swedish Police Novel’

·           Nina Muždeka (University of Novi Sad), ‘Nordic Noir and Subversive Sociopolitical Commentary: A Norwegian Example’

·           Catherine Nickerson (Emory University), ‘Lilyhammer’s “Land of Second Chances”’

1C) Noir & Space (Room: Hekla II)

Chair: Anne Marit Waade

·           Lughan Deane (University College Dublin), ‘Ghost Estates, Building Sites and Dead Developers in Irish Crime Fiction’

·           Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University), ‘Views from The Bridge: Panoramas, Non-Places and Spatial Hieroglyphs’

·           Kjartan Már Ómarsson (University of Iceland), ‘White Nights: The Nordic Periphery in Baltasar Kormakur’

13.30-14.30                 Lunch

Restaurant Skrúður (1^st Floor, Hotel Saga)

14.30-15.45                 Keynote Address (Room: Katla II)

Bruce Robbins (Columbia University), ‘The Place of Nordic Noir in the History of Violence’

                           Chair: Stacy Gillis

15.45-16.15                  Refreshments

16.15-17.45                  Panel Two

2A) Noir & the Epic (Room: Katla II)

Chair: Felicity Hand

·           Jillene Bydder (University of Waikato), ‘The Detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the Novels of Arnaldur Indriðason’

·           Giti Chandra (University of Delhi), ‘Dragon Tattoos, Crime, and the City: The Contemporary Epic’

·           Michael Treschow (University of British Columbia), ‘Outsiders: Grettir the Strong and Carl Mørck’

2B) Noir & the Child (Room: Hekla I)

Chair: Sara Kärrholm

·           Katarina Gregersdotter (Umeå University), ‘The Child as Outsider and Avenger in John Ajvide Lindqvist’

·           Franziska Kretschmer (University of Freiburg), ‘The Child is a Vamp: The Supernatural Femme Fatale in John Ajvide Lindqvist and Tomas Alfredson’

·           Andrew Nestingen (University of Washington), ‘Kid Stuff: Nordic Noir and Quality’

2C) Noir & Work (Room: Hekla II)

Chair: Christinna Hobbs

·           Iratxe Fresneda (University of the Basque Country), ‘Female Detectives in Nordic Noir: Bron/Broen and Forbrydelsen’

·           Kate Hinnant (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire), ‘Life and Work, Work and Life: Traversing Boundaries in Nordic Noir’

·           Fiona Peters (Bath Spa University), ‘Saga, Sarah and Kurt: On the Borderline’

20.00                           Conference Dinner (for those who have pre-booked)

                                    Fiskfélagiđ

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Thursday, November 17^th

9.30-11.15                                Panel Three

3A) Noir & Genealogies (Room: Katla II)

Chair: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson

·           Björn Norðfjörð (St. Olaf College), ‘To Be or Not To Be (Noir)’

·           Alda Björk Valdimarsdóttir (University of Iceland), ‘When Murder Comes to Town: The Dark Vision of Gerður Kristný’

·           Pao-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University), ‘“Seneca Cannot Be Too Heavy, Nor Plautus Too Light”: Heavy Business and Light Desire in Kaurismaki’s Hamlet Goes Business’

3B) Noir & Women (Room: Hekla I)

Chair: Nina Muzdeka

·           Lorna Hill (University of Stirling), ‘Bloody Women: Female Protagonists Transforming Contemporary Scottish and Scandinavian Crime Fiction’

·           María Socorro Suárez Lafuente (University of Oviedo), ‘Female Crime Writers and Their Detectives: The Nordic Countries and Spain’

·           Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin), ‘The Woman Between: A Social Network Analysis of The Fall and The Bridge’

·           Jon Wilkins (Independent), ‘Irene Huss: Mother, Wife, Detective’

3C) Noir & Reception (Room: Hekla II)

Chair: Kate Hinnant

·           Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (University of Iceland), ‘A Brooding Nordic Noir? Noirish Elements in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites’

·           Sara Kärrholm (Lund University) and Carina Sjöholm (Lund University), ‘The Power of the Good Example: The Packaging of Characters and Places in Contemporary Nordic Noir’

·           Delphine Letort (Université du Maine), ‘The Transnational Values of Noir in Danish and American Television Series’

·           Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope University), ‘A Labyrinth of Noir: Martin Beck, Translation and Adaptation’

11.15-11.45                  Refreshments

11.45-13.00                  Keynote Address (Room: Katla II)

Mary Evans (London School of Economics), ‘Dark Nights and Moral Diversity: Very Good and Very Bad in Nordic Noir’

         Chair: Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir

13.00-14.00                 Lunch           

Restaurant Skrúður (1^st Floor, Hotel Saga)

14.00-15.30                 Panel Four

4A) Noir & Gender (Room: Katla II)

Chair: Gerardine Meaney

·           Guðni Elísson (University of Iceland), ‘The Monster in the Closet: Bisexuality and Discursive Unease in Arnaldur Indriðason’s Bettý’

·           Anna Sigríður A. Guðfinnsdóttir (University of Iceland) and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland), ‘Femininity, Masculinity and Style in Arnaldur Indriðason’s Bettý’

·           Björn Þór Vilhjálmsson (University of Iceland), ‘Male Violence and Female Victimhood: Social Justice in Steinar Bragi’s Kata’

4B) Noir & Peripheries (Room: Hekla I)

Chair: Jacqui Miller

·           Felicity Hand (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), ‘Reading Gunnar Staalesen’s The Consorts of Death Ecocritically’

·           Christinna Hobbs (Liverpool John Moores University), ‘“Depressing, hideous…Beautiful”: Nordic Noir and the Postcolonial North’

·           Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) and Kim Toft Hansen (Aalborg University),  ‘Locating Nordic Noir’

4C) Noir & Definitions (Room: Hekla II)

Chair: Delphine Letort

·           Parnal Chirmuley (Jawaharlal Nehru University), ‘Timely Translation: The Creation of Nordic Noir as an Identifiable Genre’

·           Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Nordic Noir, Transnationalism, and Problems of Definition’

·           Patrick Kent Russell (University of Connecticut), ‘Understanding American and Nordic Noir Critiques through Hard-Boiled Interrogations of Wealth and Crime’

15.30-16.00                 Refreshments

16.00-16.45                 Roundtable (Room: Katla II)

“Whither Nordic Noir: Networks, Funding Bids, Publications & Other Plans”

Chairs: Stacy Gillis & Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir

17.30-19.30                 Keynote Address & Reception (Reykjavik City Hall)

Val McDermid

                                    Chair: Stacy Gillis

Keynote Address in association with Iceland Noir Festival

& Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature.

Reception Hosts: The British Embassy in Iceland